A research thesis

Intelligence is
not learned alone.

Experiments in social learning, cumulative machine culture, apprenticeship, and heredity.

This is the program’s motivating thesis—not a claim that the completed evidence has already established it.

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The first completed report · E001c

The exciting pilot result did not survive confirmation.

The pilot advantage did not replicate. The confirmatory estimate was −0.64 percentage points, and equivalence passed at the preregistered ±5-point margin.

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Research catalogue

Completed reports

01Kleos Framing: A Confirmatory StudyDoes framing excellence as enduring renown change objective reasoning accuracy beyond closely matched social attribution?Completed research reportE001c2026Report · Note · PDF

Research program

01Cumulative Machine CultureCan an external lineage of model-generated knowledge improve later agents without weight updates?Approved protocolE0022026Program

02Engineered Adapter HeredityCan model adaptations be mixed, inherited, and socially refined under controlled heredity experiments?Approved protocolE0072026Program

Method before mythology

A laboratory that publishes its constraints.

Questions are falsifiable. Confirmatory decisions are frozen before execution. Negative results remain results. Claims stop where the sampled models, tasks, and procedures stop.

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Intelligence isnot learned alone.

The exciting pilot result did not survive confirmation.

Research catalogue

A laboratory that publishes its constraints.

Intelligence is
not learned alone.